The top nominees for the Grammy Awards 2017

Beyonce leads the Grammy Award nominations amid acclaim for her "Lemonade" album but she faced spirited competition from other chart-topping artists including Adele.

Besides Album of the Year, Beyonce and Adele go head-to-head for Record of the Year, which recognizes individual tunes, and Song of the Year, which looks at songwriting.

Adele was nominated in the two categories for her power-track of lost love "Hello," while Beyonce is in the running for "Formation," a bouncy song that marks her deepest foray into hip-hop.

The Recording Academy will announce the winners of the music industry's leading prize at a gala in Los Angeles on February 12 after voting from 13,000 music professionals.

Here is a list of nominees in the most prominent categories:

ALBUM OF THE YEAR:

- Adele, "25"

- Beyonce, "Lemonade"

- Justin Bieber, "Purpose"

- Drake, "Views"

- Sturgill Simpson, "A Sailor's Guide to Earth"

RECORD OF THE YEAR (for best overall song):

- Adele, "Hello"

- Beyonce, "Formation"

- Lukas Graham, "7 Years"

- Rihanna featuring Drake, "Work"

- Twenty One Pilots, "Stressed Out"

SONG OF THE YEAR (for songwriting):

- Adele, "Hello." Songwriters Adele and Greg Kurstin.

- Beyonce, "Formation." Songwriters Beyonce along with Khalif Brown of rap duo Rae Sremmurd, Asheton Hogan and Mike Will Made It.

- Mike Posner, "I Took a Pill in Ibiza." No additional songwriters.

- Justin Bieber, "Love Yourself." Songwriters Bieber along with English star Ed Sheeran and producer Benny Blanco.

- Lukas Graham, "7 Years." Songwriters are band frontman Lukas Forchhammer and keyboardist Morten Ristorp along with producer Stefan Forrest and composer Morten Pilegaard.

BEST NEW ARTIST:

- Kelsea Ballerini

- The Chainsmokers

- Chance the Rapper

- Maren Morris

- Anderson .Paak

BEST RAP ALBUM:

- Chance the Rapper, "Coloring Book"

- De La Soul, "And the Anonymous Nobody"

- DJ Khaled, "Major Key"

- Drake, "Views"

- ScHoolboy Q, "Blank Face LP"

- Kanye West, "The Life of Pablo"

BEST ROCK ALBUM

- Blink-182, "California"

- Cage the Elephant, "Tell Me I'm Pretty"

- Gojira, "Magma"

- Panic! At The Disco, "Death of a Bachelor"

- Weezer, "Weezer"

BEST ALTERNATIVE ROCK ALBUM:

- Bon Iver, "22, A Million"

- David Bowie, "Blackstar"

- PJ Harvey, "The Hope Six Demolition Project"

- Iggy Pop, "Post Pop Depression"

- Radiohead, "A Moon Shaped Pool"

BEST DANCE/ELECTRONIC ALBUM:

- Flume, "Skin"

- Jean-Michel Jarre, "Electronica 1: The Time Machine"

- Tycho, "Epoch"

- Underworld, "Barbara Barbara, We Face a Shining Future"

- Louie Vega, "Louie Vega Starring...XXVIII"